Uh.... Of all the life forms that have lived on the Earth, 99% of them have gone extinct.
When something goes, something else takes it’s place. New life is constantly emerging and adapting.
Some species may go extinct in a localized area. It’s hard to snuff out all of a species. But it will happen, and there is not much we can do about it.
Some species will vanish. No matter how much we try to prevent it. Might even be us.
“When something goes, something else takes it’s place. New life is constantly emerging and adapting.”
Absolutely, those constantly emerging new life forms are making it, or not making it. In many cases the struggling new forms of life are documented, and when that life form expires, and disappears mankind is accused of the “extinction” of that life form when in actuality it simply couldn’t adapt in its existing form in the Earth’s climate/atmosphere regardless.
These “experiments of Nature” if you will occur 24/7/365 days around the World. They occur in the vacant lots next door. The jungles in Costa Rica. The deserts of the ME, the Oceans of the World. All over the Earth.
It’s a constant that somewhere right this second various offshoots of existing life are teaming with other variations of existing life creating new life forms, but if those life forms aren’t capable of adapting to the chemistry that is the Earths atmosphere they will expire.
Been going on since the beginning of this Earth. “The strong survive.” “Survival of the fittest.” That sort of thing.